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...effectively organize the news for the public, Reston advocates a new format for reflective articles which he calls "case study outlines." Instead of the old style pyramid reporting which gives the most dramatic facts in descending order of sensational value, Reston advocates a new kind of reporting specially designed to pose foreign policy alternatives. First would come an objective statement of the relative facts, then a policy alternative with arguments for and against, followed by description and debate of other possible courses of action...
...fairy-tale format, this song-and-dance film tells the story of Millie (Julie Andrews), a fresh-faced flapper in mad Manhattan circa 1922. As she sets out for her "adventures," Millie bobs her hair, raises her hemline and buys a string of beads. After peering down at her torso, she flutters her eyelids at the camera, whereupon the screen flashes a title, silent-movie style: "Gee, I wish my fronts weren't so big. They sure ruin the line of your beads." It is the first of many slices of cutesie-pie proffered by Director George Roy Hill...
Columbia led until well past halftime, when Princeton's Tom Tulenko and Mark Liss began to tiger ahead by naming the singer of Come On-a My House (Rosemary Clooney) and the Walt Disney character with nine lives (El Fago Baca), clinched the title by correctly identifying the format of the short-lived TV series It's a Man's World...
...bring home to his congregation an aspect of God's message. Well aware that pulpit time is dropout time for many churchgoers, more and more ministers are not only turning to secular sources as an inspiration for sermons but are trying more dramatic ways to vary the format of their preaching...
...outside world, Peretz continued, and needs to bring in officials from Washington -- "there are even some of us who think they are already in excess." In forcing the students to examine the Establishment and its mechanical process, Peretz said, the Institute has failed to internalize any kind of critical format which will allow the student to judge the Government as well as understand it. "If the people who are brought to speak to the students about politics can't be candid with them, then they just as well might be appearing on 'Meet the Press' or 'Face the Nation...